The core behind KERN: Family photo from the seventies. Parents and siblings of the founder of KERN. Nils Koerber is, by the way, the boy in the blue rain jacket.
Why choose KERN for company succession (M&A)? Who is the core behind KERN?
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KERN has evolved from the own experiences of a family business
KERN founder Nils Koerber comes from a medium-sized Bremen company and has gathered a wealth of personal experience in all areas of company succession over 15 years of family business entrepreneurship.
Together with his parents and siblings, the family has experienced all „stumbling blocks“ in economic, legal, tax, and emotional terms firsthand and has lived through company sales and acquisitions across generations.
These experiences were the reason that KERN was founded in 2004 as a specialised management consultancy by Nils Koerber, and that today the focus is still placed on three segments for family businesses and SMEs:
- Company sale (M & A)
- Generation change
- Company acquisition
By focusing exclusively on company succession, KERN Consulting Group can today resolve in-depth all questions and tasks that are important in these key concerns.
The culture at KERN is shaped by the founder’s Hanseatic spirit of enterprise. Both internally and externally, this means that all partners, consultants, and employees at KERN are committed to upholding a high standard of integrity on a daily basis. And for KERN, integrity means – I say what I do and I do what I say.
Every partner at KERN has diverse, personal life experiences with the topic of company succession. This is combined with the attitude that the important values of a family business are transferred to the future with care, appreciation, and professionalism.
For the good of the sellers, the buyers, the employees and the company itself.
Nils Koerber and his partner team guide clients through all aspects of business succession with their broad expertise. Whether as experienced M&A process consultants, coaches, mediators or keynote speakers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Nils Koerber himself is also the author of, among others, “The Art of Letting Go” or “What freedom tastes like” a.o.
With over 40 legally independent branches in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, as well as neighbouring countries, KERN is today among the best and largest specialist consultancies for the SME sector and has already received numerous accolades in competitions for its high quality of work.
KERN is, among other things, a certified member of the BDU (Association of German Management Consultants), a cooperation partner of many banks and savings banks, as well as Official member of the expert panel of the German Business Exchange for Company Valuations.
KERN is the consulting brand for succession in family businesses. Awarded as the first M&A consultancy with the GERMAN BRAND AWARD 2021.
Please contact us at kontakt@kern-unternehmensnachfolge.com contact Nils Koerber directly or get in touch with him at LOCATIONS to a KERN specialist in your direct, regional vicinity.
PS: The name KERN, incidentally, arose historically from the initial letters of the surnames of the founders: RUdo Ehlers and Nils Koerber (the subjective mixture of the four letters then resulted in KERN).